You may be Autistic if...

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Hehe.

If your username reflects where you should have been born.

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You dread your birthday coming up incase anyone throws a suprize party and you don't like surprizes or parties.

You May Be An Aspie If ...

... you feel like a fugitive from the Law of Averages.

... you feel pride for getting to the store all by yourself until you realize that you left your shopping list on the computer's hard-drive.

... you feel somehow privileged to have insights into the subject of cultural anthropology because you have been studying people your whole life trying to figure out what makes their culture tick.

... you finally get a date, and all you can talk about is your favorite manga.

... you find an excuse to leave your own surprise birthday party early.

... you find it easier to remember something reasonable like "acetylsalicylic acid" rather than some arcane, fancy-schmantsy word like "aspirin".

... you find it extraordinarily annoying to hear someone say the same thing multiple times, yet you can not seem to help yourself when you do it, too.

... you find small talk incredibly cumbersome.

... you firmly believe that Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) should be named for Stephen Hawking instead of Lou Gehrig.

... you follow rules to the letter; but only if they make sense to you.

... you gather every "You may be an Aspie if..." statement you can find into a single file on your favorite thumb-drive and have no room left on it for music or cat videos.

You May Be An Aspie If...

... you get all weirded-out when people look at you for too long.

... you get excited about events, objects, people, and places that everyone else could not possibly care any less about.

... you get extremely disappointed in yourself if you do not know something when you need to know it because you believe that you really should already know it.

... you get irritated when people come up to talk to you when you are doing something important (And everything you do is important!).

... you get offended when people accuse you of being a "know-it-all" as if being a "know-it-all" is a bad thing.

... you get stomach issues because you do not feel comfortable going to the bathroom in a new place.

... you get the same foods every time you eat out.

... you get upset because a family member who ought to know better gives as a birthday present something you already have.

... you get upset because Windows Vista does not have the defragmentation boxes like those seen in Windows XP.

... you get upset when someone cleans and straightens up your room because now you can not find anything.

If you howl and meow in the subway---and really don't notice that people are looking at you funny.

You May Be An Aspie If...

... someone asks "How are you?" and you actually explain your current physical and mental states to them.

... someone asks a rhetorical question and you answer it both truthfully and accurately.

... someone asks you if you believe in UFOs, and you answer "As what?"

... someone asks you what is wrong when you are just sitting there, fully relaxed and doing nothing.

... someone asks you what your favorite season is, and you answer "Of which show?"

... someone describes their personal problems, and all you can do is describe your own personal problems in response.

... someone gets angry with you because you are not crying over tragic news.

... someone gets angry with you because you are not rejoicing over happy news.

... someone is already sitting in your favorite chair in the break room, so you go back to work rather than sit in another chair.

... someone is talking to you, but all you can hear is the dripping faucet or the spinning fan in the next room.

... someone issues a "My Way or The Highway" ultimatum, and you take the "Highway" option without giving the "My Way" option a second thought.

... someone says something, and you ask someone else what was meant.

... someone takes it as a personal insult when you ask them to not touch you again.

... someone who just found out that you have AS starts talking you in "baby-talk", really loud and really slow.